Social Victorians/People/De Jancourt

Also Known As

• Family name: de Jancourt
• The Marquis de Jancourt
• The Marchioness de Jancourt
• de Jaucourt, a misspelling, bad OCR, or a different person

Demographics

• Nationality: the Marquise was English

Residences

• Jancourt House, Faubourg Saint-Germaine, Paris

Family

• François, Marquis de Jancourt
• Victoria Lina, Marchioness de Jancourt
  • Mademoiselle de Jancourt (eligible to be at a State Ball at Buckingham Palace 15 July 1895 and a number of other social events about this time)
  • Mesdemoiselles de Jancourt

Relations

1. Eliza and James Hartmann, of Munster, Alsace, and their son Frederick Hartmann

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

• Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
• The de Montbrisson family in France
• The French Rothschilds

Organizations

• F. Steiner & Co., Ltd.

Timeline

1891 May 30, hearings in a lawsuit brought by the Marquise de Jancourt against a Mr. Kerr regarding a business of "turkey red dye and calico printing." Hartmann also seems to have been a party in this litigation.

1892 April 20, Wednesday, Madlle de Jancourt was a bridesmaid in this wedding at St. Paul's with her cousin James Hartmann:

Mr. Frederick Hartmann, son Mr. James Hartmann, of Munster, Alsace, was married to Miss Constance Lister, third daughter of Sir T. Villiers Lister, X.C M.G., of Armitage Hall, Ascot, and 64, Cadogan-square. The bride was attended by six bridesmaids, her three sisters, the Misses Kitty, Mary, and Nina Lister, and her cousins, Miss Borthwick and Lady Mary Parker, and the bridegroom's cousin, Madlle de Jancourt, while Mr. James Baillie, of Dochfour, was the best man.

1894 April 4, Wednesday, the de Jancourts hosted Albert Edward, Prince of Wales at dinner in Paris in the Rue de Varenne.

1895 February 16, Saturday, The Gentlewoman says, "The Marquis and Marquise de Jancourt have gone to England to spend a few weeks with Lady Hartmann."

1897 July 2, the Marquis and Marchioness de Jancourt attended the Duchess of Devonshire's 1897 fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1899 July 15, Saturday, "Lord Kenyon, Mr. Schomburg McDonnell (Lord Salisbury's private secretary), Colonel Dawson, Mr. H. Ridgway, Lady Gerard, the Hon. Miss Gerard, Mrs. Hartmann, and Mdlle Jancourt arrived at Broughton Castle on Saturday night on a weekend visit to Lord and Lady Algernon Gordon Lennox."

1903 Spring, King Edward VII's tour that began in Portugal went on to Paris. At one luncheon,

he himself sat between two attractive women he had known and favoured for years as Prince of Wales: the Countess de Pourtalès on his right, and the Marquise de Jaucourt on his left. Among the rest of the fifty guests at the large Embassy table were Madam Henry Standish (the elegant and high-born French lady who always insisted that née des Cars was put after her American husband's name); Prince d'Arenberg, the President of the French Jockey Club, whose guest the King was soon to be; the Marquis de Breteuil and the Marquis de Gallifet; and Prince Mohamed Ali, brother of the Khedive of Egypt. To the King, one and all were fond and familiar faces of his Parisian scene. Soveral was there as well ....

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, the Marquise or Marchioness de Jancourt (at 574) sat at Table 7. The Marquis of Jancourt (at 573) also attended.